A poet, editor, biographer, critic and academic, Harry Ricketts teaches English literature and creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington. He has published over thirty books, including the internationally acclaimed The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling (1999), How to Catch a Cricket Match (2006) and Strange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War (2010). His eleventh and most recent collection of poetry is Winter Eyes (2018). His Selected Poems are forthcoming with VUP in 2021.